blue

pg-13| major character death | violence

He coughs, and it's from his lungs, not just the cut in his mouth; he can tell. Not that it really matters, because even though he doesn't know exactly how this story goes, he's dead certain that he's familiar with the ending.

"So why blue?" he manages to choke out. "Why not the ... stereotypical black, or ... I don't know, red?"

He knows that it's starting even though he's not really even sure what it is. He feels it and smells it and it hurts and the guy doesn't even say goodbye, just steps over the (his) body and -